Wednesday, August 31, 2011

CAPITMAN, BARBARA BAER, CHAMPION OF ART DECO (c) By Polly Guerin

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When it comes to Art Deco preservation and the woman who founded numerous Art Deco chapters around the country I recognize and honor the me...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

BRANDT MARIANNE, BAUHAUS METALIST (c) By Polly Guerin

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Not to be confused with the Edgar Brandt, modernist, Marianne Brandt, born in Chemnitz in 1893 as Marianne Liebe, became a Bauhaus metalist...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER, Anti-Slavery Novelist (c) By Polly Guerin

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Never underestimate the power of the mighty pen. Harriet Beecher Stowe the author of the anti-slavery novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” it is said...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Duff Gordon, "Lady Lucile" One of the First Couturiers (c) By Polly Guerin

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Who would have thought that in a male-dominated fashion world of the, 1900s Lucy Christina Sutherland would emerge as the designer, “Lucile,...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH A Literary Celebrity (c) By Polly Guerin

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Although Letitia Elizabeth Landon, is relatively unknown today, the work of this beautiful, young English poetess and novelist of the late ...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

CONE, CLARIBEL and ETTA Art Connoisseurs (c) By Polly Guerin

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Henri Matisse fondly called them “My two Baltimore ladies,” and for good reason as the patronage of Matisse by the Cone sisters was a param...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

DAY, DOROTHY Founder of the Catholic Worker Movement (c) By Polly Guerin

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Throughout Dorothy Day’s life she searched for a purpose in life and found it in the social reform movement in the 1930s. Day worked closel...
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